Automedi: 21st century digital twin supply chain. Edge manufacturing makes care products on-site, whenever it's needed. - Easy to use - Equipment in minutes not days - Eradicates delivery emissions - Eco-friendly, fully recyclable plastics
The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic mercilessly exposed serious weaknesses in national health supply chains. Critical shortage of PPE and ventilators put the lives of patients, service users, health and social care professionals and their family and friends at significant risk.
Stemming from our involvement in community efforts to help, we also decided to find a way to reliably close this gap.
It was from this necessisity, that the idea for Automedi was born.
We brought together a world class team of technologists and built the first prototype within a month. With the support of InnovateUK, the UK's research agency, we then set out on an ambitious journey to get this product into every one of the world's hospitals, care homes, surgeries, clinics and more!
I'm proud to officlally launch automedi on the 17th September 2020, to coincide with sustainability day. We'll have more news on the platform and how it helps. So follow us to join the event, which I'll be posting nearer the time.
One of the first Automedi machines was launched into Alphabet Pharmacy in Stretford, Greater Manchester. They published a pic of it on Facebook showing their Automedi nano appliance (https://www.facebook.com/alphabe...)
Alphabet's team have access to the private co-production channels, that help shape the product over time. We chose co-production as the baseline, so the entire community can get involved in the development of a project and catalogue _they_ actually want and need. The lesson is to always focus on the customer's needs and their feedback. But in what they say and what they do.
Tuesday Thoughts on Monday's motivation: Yesterday, we had a great discussion with a larger client, who have identified a couple of different areas which we didn't initially think there was much traction in. However, it turns out this may well be a very lucrative alternative market! Something we can probably pivot to supply in two days.
The moral of the story is not to go in with any preconceptions and ensure you can pivot fast once you get the data to form a hypothesis!
